To be considering leaving my job because of this?

[fadedafternoons]

I live in a village about 5 miles from work.

There are ongoing roadworks just outside the village meaning road closures and diversions.

It isn’t an exaggeration to say that at peak times it’s like an island, no one can get in or out. It takes me an hour and a half to get to work. Coming home is hit and miss.

I’m utterly sick to death of it.

AIBU?

I know I have posted already re cycling - to give you an idea, the seven miles I do door-to-door usually takes 35 minutes on an ebike at a very comfortable pace. If I really go for it, I can do 26 minutes.
eBikes take the work away, its like someone giving you a little push

@fadedafternoons oh, I see :(

@HugoSpritz Couldn't be talk about the blooming a14 could you?

Plus, trains would mean a bus journey at the other end. It would work out extremely expensive.

I would move house if this is going to be years! Surely you would not be able to work anywhere if you are literally stuck in a village.

Another e-bike enthusiast here. On flat roads you could whizz in. They are £££ though.

Same in my village, the road leading to and out is a car park. Different roads are closed everyday, I am thinking of getting another motorbike.

Blibby, the roadworks stretch for MILES. I don’t think people who aren’t local realise quite how wide and sprawling they are.

I know, but if your whole commute is 8 miles the roadworks is what, max 7? Probably less. It really is a tiny distance on a bike, you'd be amazed. I do 7 to work and don't even work hard enough to need a shower. It really is doable.

I’d honestly move. Somewhere you can either walk to work or near a train station. It sounds like even without roadworks, you’re quite cut off

Funny because my partner rang me this morning from his car, 2 and a bit hours to go 38 miles and he wasn’t even there yet. He was saying he looked around and everyone’s there in cars for 5 ppl, alone, hating life - there has to be a better way !!

I know, but if your whole commute is 8 miles the roadworks is what, max 7? Probably less. It really is a tiny distance on a bike, you'd be amazed. I do 7 to work and don't even work hard enough to need a shower. It really is doable

Same here, I just get changed at work - no shower needed, don't even break a sweat. I'm client facing so need to look groomed too.

Why not try it on a bike? If you try on a friday then youve got the weekend to recover if its too much.

You don't live in the South do you OP?

One of my colleagues has just changed jobs for exactly this reason.

If this is the A14, or anything similar, you have my sympathy.

It just gets worse and worse every single day. I leave earlier and earlier. It's got the the point where I don't think it's fair to make the kids get up any earlier and we might have to reconsider home/school/commute as it is about to break me.

Every day there is another change, closure, slip road which isn't signed properly, another route closed off or clogged with thousands of miserable people.

And no, I cannot cycle. There are no buses. There are no trains

Sorry, just seen where you are. It was probably easier for my colleague to move jobs as we have three reasonably sized towns/cities close to each other.

The main access roads to our village are flooded at the moment, and will likely be under water for at least another month.

I feel for you @Span1elsRock. A colleague had to do a 20 mile detour today to visit a client earler. The road into the village she was going to is closed because of flooding and the alternative route (a mere 8 mile detour) is closed because they're mending the level crossing (again). They haven't signposted a diversion, and she doesn't normally work a rural patch, so she didn't know there was another way round (mind you, that has a section that often floods, too).

I'm not surprised this sort of stuff is happening, there's just not enough money invested in roads (or public transport), especially in rural areas.

OP, at least you know there's an end in sight for your road works, and hopefully your journey will be shorter than before when they're done.

@pinkcardi But this new super amazing end of traffic A14 is going to be finished by 2020 and all our problems will be solved

But this new super amazing end of traffic A14 is going to be finished by 2020 and all our problems will be solved

Won't they just. The A14 is one of the reasons I moved away from Cambridgeshire, I still use it at the Suffolk end but at least they only close the Orwell bridge when the wind blows now there's another great bit of planning.

But once the A14 is finished they’re going to make Histon Rd, one of the main routes into Cambridge, one way for a year. So more distribution for Cambridge commuters!

Can’t you use the guided bus? Or cycle along the busway? Surely that’s better than sitting in a traffic jam?

And once the a14 is finished they're redoing the A428, not the junction with the M11 mind, wouldn't want to connect a main motorway with a significant trunk road, no no.

Guided bus is good if you are local, but say OP is in Dry Drayton or Oakington (no idea if she's even local to be fair, but assuming), you literally cannot get out of the village for traffic. And she can't cycle down the A14.

Borrow a helicopter?

Get a daily or weekly bus ticket. Then you'll be paying about £4 a day.

You seem to be coming up with excuse after excuse - you're very negative. There are solutions.

If you're not in a village served by guided bus then cycle/ drive to a stop. Bus into town or to Cambridge north station. Surely that would be quicker and less stressful than sitting in traffic. At least you could read a book or something.